with several brothers onhand for the holidays, we’ve all had a blast dusting off the RISK board for some raucous rounds aspiring for global domination. where else can you invade territories like Yakutsk from Kamchatka, make bogus peace alliances neither side will keep for too long, convince another player to do your dirty work and deplete your greater enemies all the while thinning his turf for your imminent expansion, and have a damn good time shouting your way through countless red and white dice rolls. about the only things missing from the old-school fun were the wooden, painted army pieces and one older brother notorious for flipping the board upon his early elimination.